I get exception : Path http://www.mywebsite.com/ does not start with a "/" character

[Legolas Woodland]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
when i click on some of my links in the web application
The server return an exception like :

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path http://www.mysite.com/ does not
start with a "/" character

org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1062) 


org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:455) 


org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:279) 

  org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
  org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:525)
  javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
  javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:118) 


com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:52) 



For example the above exception come from clicking a link that change 
the language.
which produce a url like :

http://www.mysite.com/ChangeLocale.do;jsessionid=2B7855F5F585B96C83B68FBC6B4E78D4?Lang=en 


when the browser shows the exception if i click GO button of
browser again it will works fine.


The source code for changeLocale action is as follow :


public class ChangeLocaleAction
  extends Action
{

 
  public ActionForward execute( ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
                                HttpServletRequest request,
                                HttpServletResponse response )
  {
     ChangeLocaleForm theForm      = (ChangeLocaleForm)form;
     String           forward      = Constants.FORWARD_SUCCESS;
     String s=request.getParameter("Lang");           
     String           localeString = 
s;//request.getAttribute("Lang").toString();
 
     //theForm.getLocaleString();
     HttpSession      session      = request.getSession( true );
     int              headLen      = localeString.length();
     String           language     = Constants.LANGUAGE_EN;
     String           country      = Constants.COUNTRY_US;

     if( headLen == 2 )
     {
        language = localeString;
     }

     if( headLen == 5 )
     {
        language = localeString.substring( 0, 2 );
        country  = localeString.substring( 3 );
     }
//      System.out.println("This is the language : 
====>"+language+"******This is the country : ====>    "+ country);
     Locale newLocale = new Locale( language, country );
     session.setAttribute("Language",language);

     session.setAttribute( Globals.LOCALE_KEY, newLocale );

     ActionForward myForward = null;
     String myPath="/welcome.jsp";
     if 
((request.getHeader("Referer")!=null)&&(request.getHeader("Referer")!=""))
     try{
       
         myPath=request.getHeader("Referer");
        myPath=StringUtils.substringAfter(myPath,request.getContextPath());
         if 
((request.getHeader("Referer")!=null)&&(request.getHeader("Referer")!="")){
         if(myPath=="/" || StringUtils.contains(myPath,"Locale")) 
myPath="/welcome.jsp?la="+language;
                 myForward= new 
ActionForward("lastPath",myPath,false,false);
         return myForward;
         }
         }
     catch(Exception npe){
        npe.printStackTrace();
          }
    
   //  [End]path redirection end here
   
   

    
        
     if (language=="hr")    {      
session.setAttribute("LastPageInclude","/ContentPages/welcome.hr.jsp");
          }
     if (language=="en")         { 
session.setAttribute("LastPageInclude","/ContentPages/welcome.en.jsp");
     }
     forward="forwarder";
     return mapping.findForward( forward );
         
        
  }
}



How i can fix this problem , it was working fine before i migrate to new 
server.
Thank you for looking at my code.